Senate debates

Monday, 21 June 2021

Bills

National Radioactive Waste Management Amendment (Site Specification, Community Fund and Other Measures) Bill 2020; In Committee

8:11 pm

Photo of Anne RustonAnne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

As we've discussed ad nauseam over the last half-hour, the advice of Defence is that the site is not suitable. You disagree with that, and that's entirely your prerogative to do so, but the advice that has been received by government from Defence—and I understand also from the department of industry—is that the site is not suitable. Equally, it has not gone through the process. We can sit here and argue all night about your opinion that it is suitable, but the advice that I have contained in my papers is that it is not suitable. That is the reason it has not been listed in this short-listing process.

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